WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 50, 5 April 1889, Page 31

WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

HE CODLD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR.

My object in writing is twofold : to express my gratitude for a great ■benefit, and to tell a short story which cannot fail to Interest the feelings of many others. It is all about myself, bnt I have remarked that when a man tells the honest truth about himself he is all the more likely to be of use to his fellow creatures. To begin then, yon must I had long been more or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are aware is very common in Great Britain in certain seasons of tbe year. Some months ago I had a very severe turn of it, worse, I think, than I ever had before. It was probably brought on by my catching cold, as we are all apt to do when we least expect it. Weeks passed by, and my trouble proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began to have violent racking pains in my limbs and back, I became greatly, alarmed. I could neither eat nor sleep. If I had been a feeble, sickly man, 1 should have thought less strangely of it ; but as, on the contrary, I was hearty and robust, I feared some new and terrible thing had got hold of me, which might make my strength of no avail against it. I Bay, that was the way I thought. Presently, I could not even lie down for the pain all over my body. I asked my doctor what he thought of my condition, and he fraukly said, " I am sorry to have to tell you that you are getting worse 1" This so frightened my friends, as well as myself, that they said " 2'ltomas, yon must go to the Hospital ; it may be your only cliance for life !" But I didn't want to go to the hospital. Who does, when he thinks he can possibly get along without doing it ? lam a labouring man, with a large family depending on me for support, and I might almost as well be in my grave as to be laid on my back in a hospital unable to lift a hand for months, or God only knows how longa Right at tin point 1 had a thought flash across my mind like d streak of sunshine in a cloudy day. I had heard and read a gooe deal about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and 1 resolved, beforn consenting to be taken to the hospital, I would try that well-knowg remedy. On this 1 gave up tbe doctor's medicine and began takine the Syrup. Maik the wonderful result ! I had taken but thredohcs within twenty-four hours when I was seized with a tit of cougb_ ing, and threw up the phlegm and mucus off my chest by the mouth fui. The Syrup had loosened and broken it up. Continuing with the Syrup, tl.e racking pain .which I belive came from the bitter and poison humoura in my blood and jointb, soon left me entirely, and I felt like going to sleep, and I did sleep sound and quiet. Then I felt hungry, with a natural appetite, and as I ate I soon got strong and well. I felt I could leap through the air with delight. In a week I was able to go to my work again. It doesn't seem possible, yet it is true, and the neighbours know it. There are plenty of witnesses to prove it. And, therefore, when I preach the good news of the great power of Seigel'e Syrup to cure paain and disease far and wide, nobody will wonder at me. Thomas Canning. 75 Military-road, Canterbury, Kent. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is for Jsale by all chemists and medicine vendors ; and by the Proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 25 Farnngdon-road, London, E.C., England.